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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

should know this already. :)

What in the gosh darn condescending non sequitur is that? I have a special kind of dislike for people who, instead of trying to promote learning for anyone and everyone at any stage, instead choose to ridicule people for having missed some trivial detail that has about as much in common with Bash as does COBOL (basically nothing). Web scripting is, unsurprisingly, its own skill, and it's very, surpassingly, extremely, stupendously, and obviously conceivable that someone could have years of Bash experience but only recently started putting around with scripting for things like API access or HTML parsing. But you should know this already. :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's a road on a man-made land bridge before and after this aqueduct. In this shot here, it's a bit hard to see, but the road is actually on a slight angle to make more room for the aqueduct. The walls around the road are only for this section, as out of frame the road is almost certainly on top of your bog standard land bridge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never remember this happening. Unless the Kazon make a return in S6/S7 (as I haven't finished those yet), the closest thing was the Silver Blood Harry™ (died with the rest of the duplicate ship) or the Deadlock Duplicate Harry™ that replaced the Harry that was killed when attempting to repair a hull breach.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Everyone knows the old rhyme, "Step in a cargo hold, break your back."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I did a reverse image search, and I guess it's by someone named Moosoppart.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They even have a page about the past tense written in the past tense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't that a stylistic constraint of all Memory Alpha wiki submissions?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just glad that I can resell microphone windscreens as Tribble plushies if I ever need another source of income.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been meaning to watch more of the show, since I really love the Handyman Corner segments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I had no idea FOSS tax software was a thing. Huh. I'll try and play around with it at some point and let you know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And so do the Red Greens.

 

Mine is probably the crane or the jumping frog at this point, but I'm probably overlooking a ton of other cool traditional models. Anyone else have any they like to fold?

 

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https://normalcity.life/c/origami

A community about origami, on Lemmy. From what I can tell, this is the very first community of its kind on Lemmy; a bit surprising, if you ask me. I've been getting more into trying to fold my own origami designs, and I run the instance where this community is hosted. I guess you could say my stake in the community is two-fold, but I wish to build a community that's more than paper-thin. If you like creating origami or want to learn more about it, please stop by. I'll probably release the first of my freely-licensed designs here, assuming I can create anything that isn't an eyesore. It would be cool if others did the same, but a place to share knowledge and cool folds is the real end goal. So, that's really it: origami, but on Lemmy.

 

This was one of my first attempts at using a repeating base pattern to create a more complex model. In other words, I basically folded a bird base in four smaller sections of the paper, which left me with several little subsections that I could fold in a way that added a more sculpted look. Since I was coincidentally using black and white paper and realized that I could fold the rear portion to look like a tail, I decided to try to fold a very oversimplified Orca. It has no dorsal fin, no anatomically-accurate underbelly, and little in the way of intrigue. Still, this is essentially my second design, and I think it's an interesting concept. I'm still not super happy with it, so I think I'll scrap it until I can create something better. Still, it's fun to share photos of folds like this, even when they aren't perfect.

 

ORIPA is the closest thing we have to CAD for origami. It's based on Java, although it does have binary builds for several major platforms. I couldn't get the Windows build to work, so I installed the OpenJDK and used the .jar file. The program is essentially based on editing a crease pattern, allowing you to visualize the final model in 3D. One of the killer features is that you can export the 3D view as a mesh, which means you could potentially edit it for 3D printing or create nice renders of your origami designs in Blender. It has many fold options available and should accommodate various origami styles.

I think one of the more promising ways to use this is to use it in tandem with a physical prototype for designing origami, as this gives you a clean template when you arrive at a design that you like. Some people have also mentioned that they design origami in this program before they ever fold it, which seems fairly difficult to me. Still, it's the closest thing I've found to a CAD program for origami, and it has a lot of features that make it genuinely useful. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it is a true little open-source gem that I imagine is easily overlooked for people new to origami.

 

https://normalcity.life/c/vaporwaveart

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This community was one of my main motivations to start a Lemmy instance. I'm a moderator of a few smaller tech/creative subs, and wanted to properly maintain a corner of Lemmy that felt a bit like Reddit. NormalCity is proving to be a fair bit of work, but I think it's worth it.

The Vaporwave Art community here on Lemmy is moderated by the same people as the subreddit, and NormalCity (our home instance) is hosted and operated by me. The goal is pretty simple: a place to post vaporware artwork. We don't really have too many criteria, and have a pretty strong legacy on Reddit of hosting weirder, more experimental artwork than some of our larger counterparts. I'll admit: I don't really like people telling me what is and isn't vaporware. I think the community can figure out what it likes, for the most part. So, if you're still looking for a just-visual-art place to dump your vaporware-inspired work, stop on by. I promise we won't bite, unless you post Outrun. We'll probably bite then.

 

I should add that this isn't the first time this has happened, but it is the first time since I reduced the allocation of RAM for PostgreSQL in the configuration file. I swore that that was the problem, but I guess not. It's been almost a full week without any usage spikes or service interruptions of this kind, but all of a sudden, my RAM and CPU are maxing out again at regular intervals. When this occurs, the instance is unreachable until the issue resolves itself, which seemingly takes 5-10 minutes.

The usage spikes only started today out of a seven-day graph; they are far above my idle usage.

I thought the issue was something to do with Lemmy periodically fetching some sort of remote data and slamming the database, which is why I reduced the RAM allocation for PostgreSQL to 1.5 GB instead of the full 2 GB. As you can see in the above graph, my idle resource utilization is really low. Since it's probably cut off from the image, I'll add that my disk utilization is currently 25-30%. Everything seemed to be in order for basically an entire week, but this problem showed up again.

Does anyone know what is causing this? Clearly, something is happening that is loading the server more than usual.

 
 

Hello,

I started seeing weird spikes in memory usage that result in the instance being unavailable via the web interface or via Jerboa. They seem to happen on a regular interval, although they seemingly only started today again. They don't seem to be correlated with bandwidth, so I'm not really sure what could be causing this. Perhaps someone here has more insight into this. I believe something like this was happening last week, which led me to bump the server specs in the hopes that it would resolve the issue. Now our idle/typical usage isn't anything to be concerned about, but these weird spikes are starting to cause timeouts and outages.

 

cross-posted from: https://normalcity.life/post/19363

Some pictures from my MVC-FD7. For those unaware of the Sony Digital Mavica line of cameras, the FD series (of which the FD7 was one of the first) store heavily compressed JPEG images on floppy disks. Also, the FD7 has a camcorder image sensor with interlacing, so everything looks like compressed stills from a VHS documentary.

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Hello, I noticed that my user count started going up much quicker than it should have. We probably have no more than 20-30 people on my instance at most, but the user count is now into the thousands.

Screenshot taken last night

Screenshot taken a few minutes ago

~~I'm not really sure what could be causing this, but it seems like some sort of database issue. I recently upgraded the server plan, since it's a VPS. Perhaps sending the shutdown signal and not manually stopping the Docker container caused PostgreSQL to shit itself. (Yeah, this was probably a bad idea). While I'm a bit rusty, I did have a semester class on SQL that might come in handy. Any ideas on what I should do?~~

~~I suppose it could also be account spammers, so I did try and enable captchas. Unfortunately, email verification is still not an option for me to enable at this point. Assuming this was the issue, is there a way to remove the spam accounts?~~

The captcha did seem to stop the endless tick of the user count, but I'm not sure how we can get rid of the spam accounts.

 

I just used the tool linked here in the documentation to create a Bootstrap theme, but I can't find the folder they're referencing. I've used Ansible to install Lemmy, which is working fine, but I'm not really sure how to handle themes as a result. Do I place them somewhere in my Ansible stuff, or is there that directory somewhere on the server? I found the Docker /volumes/ folder, but the directory names were random strings and not labeled like they supposedly are at the link above.

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